ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,686,153, issued on July 21, was assigned to PIOVAN S.P.A. (Santa Maria di Sala, Italy).

"Method and apparatus for analyzing a separator and plant for treating incoherent plastics" was invented by Enrico Bellio (Ponzano Veneto, Italy) and Davide Cappellini (Soncino, Italy).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method and an apparatus are disclosed for analyzing an absorption filtering medium that filters volatile organic substances in a process gas in a dehumidification plant for dehumidifying polymer granules, with a fan that generates a flow of gas through the filtering medium, an analyzer for analyzing the concentration of total organic carb...